disruptive libffi upgrade

[Horst H. von Brand]

Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:

[...]

> Incidentally - keeping the generated autotools stuff in git makes
> tracking down what *really* changed extremely painful.  It looks
> like the ABI was bumped in ee6696fdf4768ba6dd037fb6dd99435afa13816e
> but that commit has thousands of lines of generated code changes
> too.  It'd be better to either:
> 
> 1) Do "regenerate autotools" as a separate commit
> 2) Keep a separate git repository with generated stuff
> 3) Don't commit the generated files, have consumers install
>    the autotools, and join the rest of the world

Please go with (3), keeping generated files in git is just dumb.
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